Battle Of The Atom: End Of An Attitude Era with Jason Ayers
We’re finally here with our most attitude-filled episode ever. Featuring WWE SmackDown referee Jason Ayers! Ranked This Episode:
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Is Miles Morales: Spider-Man #41 Simply Good Enough?
Can Miles finally topple the Empire of the Spider? Let’s find out in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #41 written by Saladin Ahmed, art by Christopher Allen, colors by David Curiel, and letters by Cory Petit. In the year of our Lord 2022, just when I thought all irony and ridiculousness had been used up by the…
Battle of the Atom: Episode 28 – King Tut Transformer
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We talk about stairs a suprising amount on this episode. I’ve given up taking Episode Notes seriously, I doubt many of you read these and if…
The hits keep on coming in Marvel’s Wolverine #6
Two Wolverines and a Nightcrawler face off against Constrictor, Cyber and Deathstrike in a clash of the adamantium titans. If Logan can’t beat them, will he join them? Wolverine #6 is written by Saladin Ahmed, drawn by Martin Coccolo, colored by Bryan Valenza and lettered by Cory Petit. What does it take to build a…
Father and Son Face Space Rifts and Mortality in Action Comics #1029
Welcome back to SuperChat! Spinning out from the pages of BatChat, Super Boys Justin Partridge and Tony Thornley commit themselves to a new never ending battle, diving into the mighty deeds of Superman. This week the Man of Steel’s new direction continues with Action Comics #1029, part two of two of the opening arc “The…
Assorted Crisis Events #1 the perfect dizzying, chaotic allegory for our current moment
Time is having a crisis. Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cellphone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by…
The Future…is Goop? Welcome Our New Column Goop Troupe as We Start on Venom #27!
Pursued by the villainous Virus, Eddie and Dylan Brock are now on their own in a far off alternate universe ruled by mysterious masters and friends turned foe in Venom #27 by Donny Cates, Juan Gedeon, Jesus Aburtov, and Clayton Cowles. Justin Partridge: It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The…
Entry 042 – Jubilee
Name: Jubilation Lee Code Names: Jubilee, Wondra First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #244 (May ’89) Powers: Creates fireworks, is a vampire Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Corps, Generation X, New Warriors About One of the useful tools a writer has to introduce readers to a new world is the audience surrogate. This is a character that is new to the environment, say the…
Battle Of The Atom: The Most Conflicted Roster
Everyone loves conflict. Especially interpersonal conflict. Surely you will also enjoy it in this episode. Ranked this episode:
Battle Of The Atom: We Live In A (Mutant) (Space) Society
I’m not mad, just disappointed at the (space) society you chose to build. I thought we raised you better than this (in space)? Ranked This Episode:
PREVIEW: Uncanny X-Men #24 has us asking: Whither Wolf Man?
The Uncanny X-Men are the only force standing in front of a murderer’s row of monsters, and Jubilee may fall off the vampire wagon.
DAZZLER Rocks On This June In A New Story by Magdalene Visaggio & Laura Braga!
Press Release New York, NY—March 19, 2018—There’s never been a cooler time to be a mutant in the Brooklyn punk scene, especially with DAZZLER and her new band taking center stage – and this June, Marvel is bringing you a new energetic epic from Eisner-nominated writer Magdalene Visaggio with art by Laura Braga (Captain Marvel,…
Ororo goes it alone – but why though? – in Storm #2
An unknown form of radiation poisoning from the Oklahoma incident has turned her cells into ticking time bombs. As her final hours count down, will she find a cure for her illness at Night Nurse’s new superhero hospital, or will it require enchantments from Doctor Voodoo to save her life? Storm #2 is written by…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Villains Month- Two-Face
The second week of villains month, and we love a theme, so why not use this week to have our second Two-Face episode? We’ve covered a lot of Two-Face stories both for the podcast and the column, and we’re swinging back to some classics. We have the first appearance of Two-Face (a two-parter, of course),…
Dedicated X-Fans Crack Code, Reveal The Titles Of The Dawn Of X Books
They said it couldn’t be done, but Twitter user Soluzar [ed – It looks like @StAdkison beat him by a few minutes] has figured out the titles of the upcoming X-Men line. Earlier today, while all the professional chuckleheads were at San Diego Comic Con, Johnathan Hickman dropped this code on Twitter. Marvel’s Next Big…